Answering why and why not questions in user interfaces

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 397-406

  Myers, Brad ^a   Weitzman, David A ^a   Ko, Andrew J ^a   Chau, Duen Horng ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Help; Natural Programming; Questions; Why

Indexed keywords

HELP; MICROSOFT WORD; NATURAL PROGRAMMING; QUESTIONS; WHY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; WORD PROCESSING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 33745869117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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